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Fujimori Makes Enemies,
But Look at His Results

By

William Ratliff

Updated Aug. 23, 1996 12:01 a.m. ET

LIMA, Peru--Northern Peru's top Maoist, Pedro S&aacute;nchez Flores, was captured last weekend, just as he was trying to revive the "people's war" that brought the Shining Path its reputation a decade ago as the most bloodthirsty guerrilla movement in Latin American history.

The movement, it seems, has all but died, leaving a splinter group fueled more by narcotics trafficking than by ideology. But the decline of these Maoists is just part of the larger story of President Alberto Fujimori's remarkable success...